We find Iceland to be a pretty desolate place. It is all, or at least the parts we have seen, covered with lava with moss as the predominant vegetation.
Though I did find some flowers still blooming.
We toured the Reykjanes Peninsula, including this lake.
Then we went to a hot springs area to walk around.
Our last stop before lunch at a seaside restaurant was an area known for many shipwrecks. We were surprised how far inland some of the wrecks were.
The final stop before heading to the airport was at a place where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet and are gradually splitting apart.
We walked across the rift at the spot marked with the star in the above map.
Then off to the airport and the flight home. This was a great view of two tidewater glaciers from the air as we were flying over Greenland.
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